Year 6

Mrs Fryer and Mrs White

Our Summer Term 2026 topic is

WW2

In history our key question is – What was the impact of WW2 on Britain?

In geography our key question is – Where does our energy come from?

In science, we will be looking at Reproduction, The circulatory System and Lifestyles.

In DT, we will be exploring food, where it comes from and designing our own recipes.

In music, we will be looking at songs from WW1 and WW2.

In computing, we will be exploring computers of the past, with a focus on Bletchley park, before moving onto computers of the future and looking at AI and its uses.

_{Our class reader this term is…}

_{‘Letters from the Lighthouse’ by Emma Carroll}

We weren’t supposed to be going to the pictures that night…not when German bombs had been falling like pennies from a jar.

February, 1941

A bomb blast…

A chance encounter…

her mother’s coat.

This is all Olive can remember of eth night her sister Sukie went missing. With London unsafe, Olive and her brother are evacuated to the Devonshire coast to stay with a mysterious lighthouse keeper.

There, Olive must solve a mystery of her own: a strange coded note which seems to link Sukie to Devon and to something dark and impossibly dangerous.

Weekly Reminders

Homework

Your homework will consist of 10 spelling words. You should practise these words three times using one of the methods which are in the back of your Homework Book. You will also have a Maths task to complete, which will be based on this term’s KIRF (Key Instant Recall Facts). Completed homework must be returned to school on a Wednesday, ready to be marked and returned with the following week’s homework on a Friday.

During the second half of the summer term, you homework will be to practise your lines for our end of year production.

Reading

Reading is so important for a child’s development. Reading just a few minutes a day has a massive impact on a child’s ability to access the rest of the curriculum. If a child reads regularly, their writing will improve, alongside other core curriculum areas.

We ask children in Year 6 to read at least five times a week and write comments in their diaries for these reads. You should use the example comments in your diary to help structure these comments. We are looking for one vocabulary, one retrieval and one inference comment per week. The other two comments are your choice. We check Reading Diaries on a Thursday, so make sure your diary is in school on this day.

PE

On Mondays and Tuesdays, please come to school in your PE uniform: your red Randlay t-shirt, a jumper, black joggers (in winter) or shorts (in summer) and plain trainers. No football tops please.

This term we will have the opportunity to take part in tennis, cricket, athletics and rounders.

Websites

If you are keen to do a little extra work at home then the following websites would be helpful.

Grammar – https://rollama.com/index-games-toggle.php

Maths Arithmetic – https://mathsbot.com/primary/ks2